[fpc-pascal] Early BSD's Pascal system

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Oct 6 17:53:56 CEST 2009


In our previous episode, 章宏九 said:
> I notice that in early 1977, BSD contains a Pascal interpreter (or
> maybe compiler, I am not sure). How was it later? Is there any remain
> archives?

Yes, more commonly known "Berkeley Pascal". The manual,

http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/2BSD/puman.html

seems to mention a certian "William N. Joy" as partial author, the big BSD
pioneer and Sun founder. It seems to be a bytecode Pascal. (iow compiler +
interpreter like UCSD)

Afaik it can be found in old tars of early BSD versions online (at least I
could a few years back), but it never migrated to the modern BSD after the
Settlement, and afaik it is dead for twenty years.

Throwing "Berkeley Pascal" in google will probably turn up some stuff.



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